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River City Correctional Center

River City Correctional Center

Treatment

Daily activities are designed to foster sobriety, continuing education, employment and responsible behavior. Treatment is based on the Therapeutic Community (TC) model in three of RCCC’s units and requires residents to be responsible for their personal behavior, as well as the behavior of their peers. All residents are expected to participate in the "family," fulfilling all duties as they are assigned. Staff serves as role models as do the residents chosen for the community hierarchy. Responsible behavior is rewarded, and consequences for inappropriate behavior are designed to allow the resident to learn from experience.

One RCCC unit operates under the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) modality, which is monitored by staff from the University of Cincinnati Department of Criminal Justice and supervised by RCCC staff. Residents in this unit receive instruction on thinking errors, substance abuse education and anger management. Residents are taught how to correct their criminal thinking and to change the thinking that results in criminal activity. The program includes educational and employment classes, as well as relapse prevention.

The RCCC treatment program requires residents to complete four phases of treatment while in residence and to continue their recovery program in aftercare for a period of six to nine months.

As an alternative to prison, RCCC offers Hamilton County residents the opportunity to leave behind unhealthy, destructive lifestyles and become productive citizens.

Sex Offender Program

The goal of the Sex Offender Program at the River City Correctional Center is to provide safety for the victim and community, and to offer the offender an opportunity to choose a productive lifestyle that does not include victimizing others.  The client will go through three phases of sex offender specific programming: 

Disclosure
Victim empathy and remorse
Relapse prevention

The sex offender will also go through the standard River City Correctional Center program.  Depending on client needs, polygraph tests may be required.